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    It is not the case that The first objection to Kant's loose league lacks legitimacy.

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    • 1.More recent interpretations have questioned the legitimacy of the first objection.
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    • 2.Kant can be read as advocating the loose league as a first step toward a stronger federation, making his position internally consistent.
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    • 1.Kant's Perpetual Peace explicitly frames the foedus pacificum as a permanent voluntary association, not a transitional structure toward coercive federation.
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    • 2.Treating a completed normative proposal as merely instrumental undermines the internal logic Kant assigns to republican sovereignty in The Metaphysics of Morals.
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    • 3.The 'first step' reinterpretation is exegetically revisionist and lacks direct textual support in Kant's cosmopolitan legal writings.
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    • 1.Rawls's Law of Peoples independently vindicates the loose league model as normatively sufficient for international order without requiring world government.
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    • 2.If a non-coercive league can satisfy the requirements of public reason among peoples, the legitimacy objection targeting Kant's model loses its critical force.
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    • 3.The objection's assumption that legitimacy requires enforcement authority presupposes a statist conception of law that cosmopolitan theory specifically contests.
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